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Thanks to everyone who attended last night, and congratulations to Amika Cooper, who can add one more award to her trophy case for Frida and Dingwall Talk About Love. We’re looking forward to seeing your next project!

Frida and Dingwall Talk About Love – 19 votes

Ghost Train – 14 votes

Butter Lamp – 11 votes

Phoney War – 5 votes

Spamorama – 3 votes

Stewart – 2 votes

Satellite Beach – 1 vote

(55 votes total)

Watch for our next screening in January 2015. More news here, on Twitter, and on Facebook.

It seems hard to believe, but we’re wrapping up our third season this month! Come on out on October 23rd for another great selection of short films. We’ll even have some details about our new and improved subscription package for 2015! Please join us!

Satellite Beach follows the unique journey of the Endeavour space shuttle as it travels through the streets of Los Angeles to the California Science Center and the final move of the Atlantis space shuttle to the Kennedy Space Center. Watch as Warren Flowers, a devoted and unlikely shuttle manager navigates the missions on his own accord while citizens, reporters, and officials are perplexed by his involvement.

The Internet hits back when spam becomes spurned for our dubious hero Cedric. Lampooning the scourge of inboxes the world over, Cedric and his video game-obsessed pal Godric learn a painful lesson.

Duration: 2:00

GHOST TRAIN

Dir: James Fleming, Kelly Hucker
Australia – 2014

Eighty-four-year-old Geoffrey has had to put his wife in a nursing home and feels completely alone until one day he chances upon a ghost train and takes a ride into Dracula’s. Inside this macabre cabaret-theatre restaurant, Geoff becomes captivated by the lead vampire in the show—a young actress named Gillian—and the two begin an unlikely friendship. As Gillian brings Geoff deeper into her world, Geoff also draws her further into his. Ghost Train is a documentary about the many forms of love and finding life in unexpected places.

Best Short Documentary – Hot Docs

Official Selection – Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Duration: 15:00

SABOTAGE

Dir: Robin Rigault
Canada – 2014

A young couple are driven to face what the moving images are doing to them.

Duration: 2:30

DRÔLE DE GUERRE (PHONEY WAR)

Dir: Simon Panay
France – 2014

As his ill mother is brought to the hospital, young Matis must stay at his grumpy and introverted grandfather’s house. To escape boredom and loneliness, he decides to play with some of his grandfather’s belongings: an old gun, and a French Resistance medal.